SeminArch 5: The Piranesi Variations

Figure 1, Model of the Campo Marzio, as interpreted by the students of Yale University

The Piranesi Variations Peter Eisenman and associates THE PROJECT OF CAMPO MARZIO, WHEREIN PIRANESI’S ORIGINAL PLANS ARE GIVEN FORM, NOT AS AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF ANCIENT ROME, BUT AS AN “ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIMENT.” This project takes as its common ground one of the most important architectural drawings in the canon: Piranesi’s Campo Marzio, a speculative reconstruction of classical Rome drawn in 1762. Four teams, each of which work between the academia and practice to varying degrees, create new speculations using the Campo Marzio as a basis, producing distinct readings that try to add new layers of experimentation to the imagined, yet iconic site. The effect is to show how inexhaustible are the oppurtunities for reinterpretation and creative speculation contained in architectural history. [1] By: Frank van Kessel, 2012, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven.

Inspired by the 13th International Architecture Exhibition’s theme Common Ground, Peter Eisenman has formed a team to revisit, examine and reimagine Piranesi’s 1762 folio collection of etchings, Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma. These etchings were created after years of fieldwork spent measuring remains of the buildings of ancient Rome and represent a landmark in the shift from a traditionalist, antiquarian view of history to the scientific, archaeological view. Moreover, they embroiled Piranesi in a vitriolic debate on the repose and decorum of Greek architecture versus the visionary ornamentation and power of Rome. Yet it is the enigmatic quality of the map-drawings themselves-so precise, so specific, yet so utterly impossible-that continues to fascinate.

Eisenman’s team consists of Eisenman Architects, students from Yale University, Jeffrey Kipnis with his colleagues and students of the Ohio State University, and Belgian architecture practice, Dogma. Each group has produced a response to Piranesi’s work through models and drawings, which in turn raise questions for contemporary architecture. In particular, they explore architecture’s relationship to the ground and the political, social and philosophical consequences that develop from that relationship. Yale University’s The project of Campo Marzio gives form to Piranesi’s original plans, not treating them as archaeological reconstructions of ancient Rome, but as an “architectural experiment”. [1] The project of Campo Marzio is a highly detailed, goldleafed 3D-printed model at the scale of the original 1762 etching, accompanied by a taxonomy of Piranesi’s architectural inventions. The work evolved out of a second-year graduate seminar devoted to studying the Campo Marzio drawing, well known to be an invention and not a representation of scientific archaeological study. Because the drawing exists almost exclusively in plan – Piranesi only produced three perspective etchings for the project – the students were asked to “re-invent” the Campo Marzio by projecting the six quadrants of the original drawing onto the third dimension based on their own historical research. The final model – the first of its kind – is a dynamic interaction between history and the present, architecture and the urban, invention and analysis, and is the springboard for the contemporary investigations and projections shown alongside it.

Relations, meanings and objects The Campo Marzio can be seen as a space consisting of relations (Diagrams) a space consisting of meanings (Walls), and a space consisting of objects (Dreams). Spaces that Stan Allen call fields, hence the title of the projects.

However, these spaces, or fields, are not separated, but rather connected by causality.

The relation between the objects can define their meaning, and their meaning can define the nature of the objects.

The nature of the object can in turn define the position of the objects with respect to one another, which defines the relation that the objects have to each other.

The separate ‘Field-projects’ show us what the Campo Marzio would look like if every type of space, or every field, would be taken apart and given a contemporary interpretation. This interpretation is not so much directed at the structure of the objects - although actually it is but directed at painting a picture of the general ‘theme’ of these different Fields. Eisenman’s A Field of Diagrams transforms Piranesi’s compositional aestethics into a palimpsest of the spatial and temporal qualities between Imperial Rome and today. Dogma’s contribution, A Field of Walls, explores how the politics embedded in the etchings are not a function of forms, but of walls, and as such provides a guide for contemporary architecture to reconsider the power relations it deploys. The final piece, A Field of Dreams, by the team at Ohio State University, reanimates the passions, perversions and spectacles of ancient Rome as a morality play for contemporary architecture. [2]

Images [1] Photo by prof. K. Wuytack at the 2012 Venice biennale, Footnotes [1] Eisenman Architects et al. (2012) The Piranesi Variations. From: Biennale Architettura 2012: Common Ground, 29.08 - 25.11. Venice [2] Eisenman Architects et al. (2012) The Piranesi Variations. From: Biennale Architettura 2012: Common Ground, 29.08 - 25.11. Venice

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Figure 1 (top), Model of the Field of Diagrams, presented at the 2012 Venice biennale Figure 2 (left), ‘Six Towers’, one of three panels

A Field of Diagrams Peter Eisenman and associates and the students of Yale University A FIELD OF DIAGRAMS, WHEREIN THE IMPROBABLE COMPOSITORIAL AESTETICS THAT DRIVE THE PIRANESI ETCHINGS ARE TRANSFORMED INTO A PALIMPSEST OF THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL QUALITIES BETWEEN IMPERIAL ROME AND TODAY, GENERATING A RADICAL IDEA OF THE VERTICAL DIMENSION. In an interview at the 2012 Venice biennale, Peter Eisenman calls Piranesi the very first modern architect, because in his Campo Marzio he strived to describe a scientific world of the future, rather than the past world. None of the things on Campo Marzio ever existed, he merely pretended they did. Eisenman interprets the Campo Marzio as a space where anything is possible and transforms it into a palimpsest of intricate layers of geometric shapes and forms.

For the 2012 Venice Biennale, Eisenman returns with the Piranesi Variations, based on the Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The purely theoretical project was divided into three Fields; the Field of Walls, the Field of Diagrams and the Field of Dreams.

Eisenman takes the Field of Diagrams and transforms the Campo Marzio in an chaotic, unrecognizable mess of diagrams and peculiar structures in this project.[1] In order to better understand the process that has resulted in a proposal like this, we first take a step back to 1985, when Eisenman proposed a similar project titled The Romeo and Juliet project at the 1986 Venice Biennale.

Narratives The Romeo and Juliet project is an exercise in what Eisenman terms “scaling” – where the deliberate superimposition of varied and incompatible scales provide the means to “eschew the anthropocentric organizing principles of presence and origin” [2] In his Romeo and Juliet project, Eisenman uses the process of scaling to generate a complex architectural scheme. The text in which this project is presented is titled Moving Arrows, Eros and Other Errors and consists of thirty superimposed plastic transparencies that bear a narrative explanation, and drawings done to different scales. The “origin” of this architectural text and textual architecture is not one but multiple; in other words, it is already divided and dispersed. There are at least three versions of Romeo and Juliet: one by Da Porto, one by Bandello, and one by Shakespeare. Eisenman weaves different strands of these texts together to form a site that is “a palimpsest and a quarry”. But the narratives not only constitute the site, the site also shapes the narratives.

“Each narrative”, Eisenman points out, “is characterized by three structural relationships, each having its own physical analogue: division (the separation of the lovers symbolized in physical form by the balcony of Juliet’s house); union (the marriage of the lovers symbolized by the church); and their dialectical relationship (the togetherness and apartness of the lovers as symbolized in Juliet’s tomb). The three structural relationships that pervade the narrative also can be found to exist at a physical level in the plan of the city of Verona: the Roman cardo and decumans divide the city; the old Roman

Figure 3 (top) and figure 4 (right), Models of Eisenman’s Romeo and Juliet project. grid unites and the Adige River creates a dialectical condition of union and division between the two halves” By juxtaposing different narratives and superimposing contrasting scalings, Eisenman produces a labyrinth from which there is no exit.”

Discontinuity, recursivity and self-similarity Not only does the Romeo and Juliet project translate the narratives into landmarks on the site, but moreso it uses a system to do it and to divide and fill the site.

“Wherever the metaphysical “centrisms (which Eisenman identifies here as site, program and representation) seem like they might take hold of the course of the design and direct it towards a sense of wholeness or completeness, Eisenman activates the mutually dependent “destabilizing agents” of scaling, which are discontinuity, recursivity and self-similarity.

Discontinuity asserts the viability of “absence as a valid organizing principle undermining the privileged status of “presence”. By this, Eisenman means that all forms present in perceptual experience contain more than a

simple presence – they implicitly carry traces of where they have come from and where they are going to, which dissolve the primacy of where they are at present. Thus the textual entity or sign is conceived in terms of its fixation on a meaning, from one signification and on to the next, rather than its movement towards meaning that depends on its overwhelming pertinence to a particular situation.” [3] Eisenman explains this in Moving Arrows, Eros and other Errors using the metaphor of a still arrow and a moving arrow; “Theories of the site as present origin presume that the moving arrow and the still arrow are the same, yet putting one’s hand in front of both, one quickly discovers the difference. Even though a picture of one arrow would be virtually indistinguishable from the other, the moving arrow contains where it has been

and where it is going; it has a memory and an immanence that are not present to the observer of its image – they are essential absences.

Recursivity and self-similarity are described respectively as confronting origin and representation. Recursivity, Eisenman says, is a serial elaboration of self-same forms, for instance the square divided into four squares again and again. Self-similarity involves the analogical comparison of formal structures, not by way of geometric similarity, but by a juxtaposition of “significance”. For example, the walls of Romeo’s castle are self-similar to the walls of Verona. The significance which underpin the drawing of such analogies arise from Eisenman’s structural analysis of the Romeo and Juliet story. In the manner of Claude Lévi-

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Strauss he singles out the main structural relationships embodied in the literary narrative “division”, “union” and “the dialectical relationship of division and union”.

Then, he searches for analogous physical structures, textual structures and structures from other forms of text which are “similar”, such as the “wall” with which to create a kind of counterpoint which may be repeated into an infinite series of infinite superpositions”. The manner in which these superpositions are presented takes the form of a series of overlaid and inscribed “glasses” which perpetrate and enhance the surface-level nature of Eisenman’s whole operation. None of these glasses carries a definitive representation; each must be taken as just one of many possible, ongoing manifestations. As Eisenman states; “There is something yet to be written before the reality of the site of Montecchio, and after the fictions of the Verona of Romeo and Juliet. Here architecture does not close of unify, but rather opens and disperses, fragments and destabilizes.”

[4] Axis, Pairs, Hinge and Interstition Similar to the Romeo and Juliet project, for which Eisenman analyzed structural elements of the story, he analyzed the structural elements of the Campo Marzio.

The Campo Marzio has been split in six parts, the individual parts of the etching by Piranesi. Then the maps have been dissected and four key compository elements of Campo Marzio were introduced; the axis, pairs, the hinge and the interstition; Axial conditions occur when three or more differentiated figures are arranged along a single axis. The axis allows for figures which are fundamentally different to be in dialogue with one another. Pairs are distinct objects related about an axis. They are not single mirrored or symmetrical objects and are not necessarily part of a larger symmetrical organization. Hinges are single objects or a set of objects between two or more figures with different primary axes. These hinge figures allow for a transition between different axial orientations. Interstitial spaces fill the spaces between larger objects, but, unlike hinge figures, they do not relate one large complex to another.

While these figures often conform to the given edges of neighboring objects, they do not follow the formal logic (axis, pair, mirror, hinge) of larger figures. [5]

Figure 5 (left), Structural elements, from top to bottom; axis, pairs, hinge and interstitial The dissection of the Campo Marzio is done by observing and investigating the relation between the objects on the etchings rather than analyzing the individual objects.

However, some objects are so enormous that they can be seen as a structure consisting of smaller objects, like the mausoleum of Hadrianus, displayed on the left.

Six Diagrams

A deeper connection to the narrative itself might be found in the research of Kevin Lynch, whose theories are very familiar to Eisenman. Kevin Lynch was primarily concerned with the connection between the people and the urban tissue. He studied the way people navigate through their city, but also the connection they have to it in relation to memories of the places they’ve visited before, or just landmarks they use to place themselves within the city. In a way this has a very strong relation to Rome, where almost every building has some meaning, let alone the objects in the city that, to my own

The Field of Diagrams project is presented in relation to three panels, respectively named six diagrams, six texts and six towers. The panel of six diagrams is fitted with a narrative about a man that purchases a road map while taking a trip through France and becoming simply amazed by the lines, colors and abstractions with which the road map represents the real world. Later he visits an exhibition where an enlargement of a beautiful road map is compared to an enlargement of a satellite photo. The road map is more complex, but also contains far more information than the satellite picture. “Above the two enlargements was the title of the exhibition; THE MAP IS MORE INTERESTING THAN THE TERRITORY.” Granted, the purpose of narrative could be seen as just to introduce to the project in an entertaining way and making the spectator aware that the project tries to create a map, rather than a territory. But knowing Eisenman, there is probably more meaning to this, since the narrative was posted in relation to six diagrams (figure 5) that seem to undergo transformation towards a finalized structure.

The transformation starts with the hinge of the mausoleum of Hadrianus. Then, based on the mausoleum’s s axes, a grid is synthesized, Then, this grid is copied, flipped and twisted. It seems like Eisenman is using the structural components of Piranesi’s Campo Marzio, explained in the introduction of the Piranesi Variations, to create a site of his own, just like he did with the structural components of Romeo and Juliet. Using the structural elements of the Campo Marzio, distilled from a precise analysis, he proceeds using the mausoleum of Hadrianus as a template to create a range of self-similar forms, for instance the aforementioned square, divided into fours squares, over and over again.

Figure 6 (above), Transformation of the mausoleum of Hadrianus on the ‘Six Diagrams’ panel at the 2012 Venice biennale

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experience, make Rome very easy to navigate. A road map depicts the most important landmarks and points of recognition like infrastructure and natural elements like waterways, forests, plains or mountain slopes, the detail of which depends on the scale, all to facilitate navigation.

Therefore, the map could be more interesting than the territory indeed. By using the narrative about the map I think Eisenman explains that his Field of Diagrams does not aim to be realizable or realistic for that matter, but rather philosophical, and, as mentioned before, ‘an exercise in expertise’ Six Texts The Field of Diagrams project uses three panels, of which one is named six texts. On this panel are again six diagrams (figure 6) , only on this one not a process but parts of the map are displayed. Next to these diagrams six quotes of famous architects and philosophers are pinned, one from Sigmund Freud, relating to this subject matter; “Now let us make the fantastic supposition that Rome were not a human dwelling-place, but a mental entity with just as long and varied a past history: that is, in which nothing once constructed had perished, and all the earlier stages of development had survived alongside the latest. This would mean that in Rome the palaces of the Caesars were still standing on the Palatine and the Septizonium of Septimius Severus was still towering to its old height; that the beautiful statues were still standing in the colonnade of the Castle of S.t Angelo, as they were up to its siege by the Goths, and so on. (…) indeed, the same ground would support the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva and the old temple over which it was built. And the observer would need merely to shift the focus of his eyes, perhaps, or change his position, in order to call up a view of either the one or the other.” [6] In the Field of Diagrams, different layers of patterns are discernible, as well as some of the actual structures on Piranesi’s Campo Marzio. These different structures could be seen as different layers of meaning. Even though the diagrams overlap, when focusing on one layer the diagram can be imagined continuing. Therefore a lot of layers can overlap each other, and just by shifting the focus of the eyes to a higher or lower layer, a new pattern can be seen. I think it can be compared with the multitude of lines on the floor of a sports hall. Depending on the sport

you are playing some lines have meaning to you and some are not. You are only focused on the one color of lines and the other lines do not exist for you, even though they are definitely there.

Fields and diagrams As mentioned before, when the design starts taking a definitive course, Eisenman activates the destabilizing agents discontinuity, recursivity and self-similarity. But why destabilize that which is bound to be stable, because is it not right for a design to be stable? Apparently not.

The wish for instability in his designs could be explained by regarding the Field of Diagrams being what its name suggests: a field.

Stan Allens describes the field as “a space of propagation, of effects. It contains no matter or material points, rather functions, vectors and speeds. It describes local relations of difference within fields of celerity, transmission or careering points, in a word, what Minkowski called ‘the world’.” [7] This phrase from the essay relates to Eisenman’s theory, stated in his Moving Arrows, Eros and other Errors and the analogy of the moving and the still arrow used before. Here Eisenman states that an object is never just the object you see. It contains traces, visible or invisible, that the object has a history and for that matter also a future, relating to stories that could be translated into design: discontinuity.

An explanation of the other two destabilizing agents, recursivity and self-similarity, can be found in terms of field conditions. “Field conditions” implies the acceptance of the real in all its messiness and unpredictability. A field condition would be any formal or spatial matrix capable of unifying diverse elements while respecting the identity of each. They are bottom-up phenomena, defined not by overarching geometrical schemes, but by intricate local connections. Forms matters, but not so much the forms of things as the form between things. [8] Stan Allen’s and Eisenman’s work cover a lot of common ground, however that does not mean that Stan Allen and Eisenman have similar approaches towards or thoughts about design. Where Stan Allen tries to define the field as a messy, unpredictable plane of event, Eisenman thinks of the field as a plane of events with a history, a present and a future, a plane that is moving through time instead of just existing in space.

Figure 7 (above), Plate 1 up to 6 of the ‘Six Texts’ panel at the 2012 Venice biennale

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Both, too, use the grid as a very important element in design, particularly because of the self-similar nature of the grid. However Eisenman does not use the grid to unify, but rather uses it to organize and divide. Looking at the Field of Diagrams – and for that matter the Romeo and Juliet project too – one can see that while the grid is still a very dominant part of the proposal, it is only used as a tool, not as a guiding element for the design. The selfsimilar parts are rotated, overlapped, mirrored and scaled in relation to each other, making for a chaotic whole and thus defying the general purpose of the grid, but on the other hand still maintaining discernible elements by laying the layers on top of each other so that every layer can be seen as separate from the others. I don’t believe Stan Allen would ever think of using the grid in this way.

Figure 8 (above)and figure 9 (right), Model of the Field of Diagrams at the 2012 Venice biennale

Six Towers Knowing more about Eisenman’s way of dealing with space, that is regarding it as being a field, I should be able to review the project in detail. At first glance the model looks comprised of different layers. These layers are created using the compositional elements from the Campo Marzio axis, pairs , hinge and interstitial as described on the six diagrams panel.

To state the obvious, Piranesi’s Campo Marzio is the bottom layer, but the mausoleum of Hadrianus, the starting point of Eisenman’s variation is brought to the top. The other layers seem to be part of the variation.

But then there is one other layer that could be easily overseen by the eye, because the variation itself demands so much attention; Nolli’s interpretation of Rome. Yes, Nolli’s 1748 Map of Rome has been used as a layer, or at least an interpretation of it. Around the edges structures can be seen that reminds one of the mediaeval sprawls of the city center. The blocks are completely closed and some of them are merged with others, but the style of the

closed blocks reminds one very strongly of the blocks that Giambattista Nolli drew on his map. In light of the topic it certainly seems appropriate.

The layers are not laid flat onto each other. Parts of the layers jump to layers above, or when layers cross, they seem to have some interaction with each other. Some layers are very transparent, the bottom layers are mostly flat. The bottom layer, the original Campo Marzio is almost completely purged of it’s elements, just a few remain, visible through the top layer, the exception being the mausoleum of Hadrianus, which is bumped up to the top layer and used as the starting point of another layer.

The six towers are positioned where the richly decorated head used to exist on Piranesi’s drawings. The positioning of six towers could possibly be explained by quoting Sigmund Freud once more; “Now let us make the fantastic supposition that Rome were not a human dwelling-place, but a mental entity with just as long and varied a past history: that is, in which nothing once constructed had perished, and all the earlier stages of

development had survived alongside the latest.”

Rome as a dwelling place, just for the observer. But where are the people that live in Rome going to go? Exactly.

Because the head on the original Campo Marzio covered a part of the drawing, there can only be speculation about what could be underneath. So the towers tell the story of the Campo Marzio, devoid of any residents, all of them living in huge towers. As I’ve stated before, the designs of Eisenman do not answer immediate questions, they simply show what something could look like, be shaped like or generally spoken could be. It is very important to keep this in mind. The Field of Diagrams is what it is: a field, which means that everything is connected somehow, and there are no separate layers. Every element could be the start of a new layer, and these layers could influence lower or ‘earlier’ layers, same as they could influence layer that have yet to come. That’s why the Field of Diagrams shows a past, a present and a future.

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Images [1] Photo by prof. K. Wuytack at the 2012 Venice biennale, digitally processed by F.J. v.

Kessel [2] Photo by prof. K. Wuytack at the 2012 Venice biennale, digitally processed by F.J. v.

Kessel [3] SCALING. [Online image] Available from: http://cartografiasurbanas09.wordpress. com/2009/08/20/scaling-2/ [4] Peter Eisenman Romeo and Juliet project, model. [Online image] Available from: http:// inthemaking-diana.blogspot.nl/2010/07/getting-back-on-track.html [5] Collage of photo’s by prof. K. Wuytack at the 2012 Venice biennale, digitally processed

by F.J. v. Kessel [6] Collage of photo’s by prof. K. Wuytack at the 2012 Venice biennale, digitally processed

by F.J. v. Kessel [7] Collage of photo’s by prof. K. Wuytack at the 2012 Venice biennale, digitally processed

by F.J. v. Kessel [8]Photo by prof. K. Wuytack at the 2012 Venice biennale, digitally processed by F.J. v.

Kessel [9]Photo by prof. K. Wuytack at the 2012 Venice biennale, digitally processed by F.J. v.

Kessel Footnotes [1] Interview with Peter Eisenman at the 2012 Venice Biennale. Available from: http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTo7briJOsQ [2] C.R. Knights, The fragility of structure, the weight of interpretation: some anomalies in the life and opinions of Eisenman and Derrida. In: I. Borden, J. Rendell, InterSections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories (p. 74-75) [3] M.C. Taylor, Refusing Architecture. In: J.D. Culler (2003) Deconstruction: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume 3. Routledge (p. 433-434) [4] C.R. Knights, The fragility of structure, the weight of interpretation: some anomalies in the life and opinions of Eisenman and Derrida. In: I. Borden, J. Rendell, InterSections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories[5] Eisenman Architects et al. (2012) The Piranesi Variations. Exhibited at the 2012 Venice biennaleFrom I. Borden, J. Rendell, InterSections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories (p. 74-75) [5] Eisenman Associates (2012), The Piranesi Variations. At the 2012 Venice Biennale [6] Eisenman Associates (2012), The Field of Diagrams. At the 2012 Venice Biennale [7] S. Allen, From Object to Field: Field Conditions in Architecture and Urbanism [8] S. Allen, From Object to Field: Field Conditions in Architecture and Urbanism

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Figure 1 (top), Model of the Field of Walls at the 2012Venice biennale Figure 2 (left), Drawing of the Field of walls at the 2012 Venice biennale

A Field of Walls Dogma A FIELD OF WALLS, WHEREIN THE POLITICS EMBEDDEB IN PIRANESI’S ETCHINGS ARE REVEALED TO BE NOT A FUNCTION OF FORMS BUT OF WALLS, AND AS SUCH PROVIDE A GUIDE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE TO RECONSIDER THE POWER RELATIONS IT DEPLOYS, WITTINGLY OR NOT. [1] ogma’s contribution, A Field of Walls, explores how the politics embedded in the etchings are not a function of forms, but of walls, and as such provides a guide for contemporary architecture to reconsider the power relations it deploys. [2]

Images [1] Photo by prof. K. Wuytack at the 2012 Venice biennale, digitally processed by F.J. v.

Kessel [2] Photo by prof. K. Wuytack at the 2012 Venice biennale, digitally processed by F.J. v.

Kessel Footnotes [1] Dogma Architects (2012) A Field of Walls. Exhibited at the 2012 Venice biennale [2] Eisenman Architects et al. (2012) The Piranesi Variations. From: Biennale Architettura 2012: Common Ground, 29.08 - 25.11. Venice

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Figure 1 (top), Model of the Field of Dreams at the 2012Venice biennale Figure 2 (left), Drawing of objects on the Field of Dreams at the 2012 Venice biennale

A Field of Dreams Jeffrey Kipniss and the students of Ohio University A FIELD OF DREAMS, WHEREIN THE EROTICS – THE PASSIONS, PERVERSIONS AND SPECTACLES OF ANCIENT ROME – SO PERFECTLY FROZEN BY PIRANESI’S ETCHINGS ARE REANIMATED AS A MORALITY PLAY FOR CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE (DEDICATED TO LE CORBUSIER AND JOHN HEJDUK) [1] A Field of Dreams, by the team at Ohio State University, reanimates the passions, perversions and spectacles of ancient Rome as a morality play for contemporary architecture. [2]

Images [1] Photo by prof. K. Wuytack at the 2012 Venice biennale [2] Photo by prof. K. Wuytack at the 2012 Venice biennale, digitally processed by F.J. v.

Kessel Footnotes [1] Dogma Architects (2012) A Field of Walls. Exhibited at the 2012 Venice biennale [2] Eisenman Architects et al. (2012) The Piranesi Variations. From: Biennale Architettura 2012: Common Ground, 29.08 - 25.11. Venice

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